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Shinjuku Station Indoor Turns Tokyo’s Maze Into a Three.js Map
Satoshi Komatsu’s Three.js viewer turns open indoor map data for Shinjuku Station into a layered 3D wireframe, with floor toggles and pedestrian-network controls for reading Tokyo’s famous maze.
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Sporenkijker: A Live 3D Map of Flanders' Busiest Train Stations
A live digital twin of Belgium's ten busiest train stations, with accurate rail geometry and real-time arrivals rendered in a calm mech-tech style. Built by Guy Van Raemdonck at Studio Haedin.
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Flight Path: 30,000 GPU-Instanced Flights on a Photorealistic Earth
Yong Su's Three.js demo spins a photorealistic Earth and threads up to 30,000 planes along dashed parabolas between cities. Every plane lives in one instanced mesh, with shaders handling the per-frame math. Scrub the UTC slider and watch the terminator crawl across the Pacific.
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Mapillary: A Street View Stitched Together by Strangers
Hundreds of millions of crowdsourced street photos, blended into a navigable 3D world you can pan through like a panorama. Built on mapillary-js, an open source TypeScript and WebGL library by Oscar Lorentzon. Point clouds, undistorted camera frames, and an S2-cell navigation graph under the hood.
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Flightradar24: Live Flights Rendered in WebGL2, Updated Every Two Seconds
Flightradar24 renders tens of thousands of real aircraft on a vector globe using WebGL2 and CesiumJS, with positions updating every few seconds from 58,000 volunteer receivers. One of the most data-dense real-time WebGL apps on the public internet.
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San Rita: A Studio Site Disguised as a Topographic Map
San Rita ditches the agency portfolio grid for something stranger: a navigable topographic landscape where projects sit like waypoints on a trail system. Some paths are open, some are closed for restoration. It's weird, deliberate, and worth inspecting.
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In The Clouds: Tallest Buildings as 40-Meter Blocks
The world's tallest buildings rendered as stacked 40-meter blocks in Three.js. One block equals four floors. Pure client-side WebGL with procedural geometry. No map tiles, just height data and math.
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The Globe of Economic Complexity: Visualizing $15 Trillion in World Trade
Harvard's WebGL experiment animates 153,000 particles to map global exports. Each dot = $100M. Built with Three.js, it's a masterclass in data viz that's begging for a modern remake with up-to-date capabilities and data.
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Exploring Sutro Tower in 3D
Fly through a photorealistic 3D scan of SF's iconic Sutro Tower. Drone photography, gsplat training, and SOGS compression were used to create this ~30MB Gaussian Splat rendered in PlayCanvas. A beautiful example of web-based photogrammetry in action.
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Google's Language Explorer
Explore 7,000+ languages on a slick WebGL-powered globe built by Google Research. Real-time filters, rich metadata, and interactive pins all driven by the LinguaMeta dataset.
